The progress of the nation depends on its sustained growth of education and research in science and technology. To meet the objective, our research should bear international comparison in terms of standards of attainment. A major weakness of Indian education and research is the relatively very small part played by the universities in the sum total of Indian research. The government can take several steps to encourage research and innovations in the universities. Promotion of research in liberal arts and social sciences, including inter-disciplinary research is significant too. The government needs to increase its allocations for Rand D activities. At the institutional level, there is a need to link teaching with research. The government needs to invest in faculty development and provide incentives for research, promote collaborative efforts between institutions in research.
• In what ways, aptitude for research and innovation should be developed in students and faculty members?
• What measures are needed to develop research capabilities of teachers and students?
• In what ways, research agenda should be prioritized at the higher education level?
• How private agencies can be encouraged and motivated to invest funds in university research and innovation activities?
• Which of the following strategies need to be pursued for promoting research & innovation
Outcome based research financing.
Liberal research grants for both social sciences and basic sciences.
Setting up Incubation Centers with Seed Money to do innovative research
Research leading to creation of intellectual property.
Setting up Research Parks in central educational institutions.
Joint appointments of faculty – enabling researchers to teach and teachers to engage in research.
Inter-disciplinary research – Institutions must come together for creating new knowledge at the intersections of existing disciplines.
• How can we make India become a favoured destination for R&D projects. How can we explore getting grants from abroad for R&D?
Name of the Moderator: Prof. Partha P. Chakrabarti, Director, IIT Kharagpur
Day, Date & time: Thursday, 18th June, 2015, 4.00 PM.
Why our education system teach us useless subject in prospects to market/social demand?
Appreciate the efforts of IIT Kharagpur. Can we have this as a policy guideline? To have compulsory real world projects done by students should be mandatory.
Education Outreach is a highly ignored area in Higher Education. Education Outreach may actually help the Academics in identifying real world problems. It should be institutionalized.
why PhD degree from institution like IITs takes more than 5 years,
How we can change that,
and why not to change them.
Dear Sir,Thank you for this program. I think orientation program should be done for incoming students those who come to IITs or any other institutes to know the career path.
Any comments on that Sir?
Thank you
Rudra
2012 GG Batch, IIT KGP
Any thought on interacting Industry with Engineering Academia? As Mentor ?
Social Interface of Higher Education Institutions should be increased. When Students, Faculties will start going out in society, they will realize real world problems and probably that will help in doing breakthrough research.
Do you think we should focus on specific areas / fields of research
other than trying everything in parallel?
Hello! Namaskar,Mr.Prime Minister.First of all thanks for giving us such a wonderful platform to interact with you...I have one idea that Vedas should be included in school studies...If this happens then children would bring more creativity and will make base of good moral values..
Kindly implement interuniversity movement of non teaching staff this will improve the research performance of any university lot...